Yeah, yeah….I know everyone’s crazed about the New Hampshire primary, but this New York Times piece about tensions between Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and “President” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad seems a significant bit of good news. The story, essentially, is that with the US intelligence community’s NIE on the Iranian nuclear program …

I just got a call from a conservative marketing consultant I know. He is in a panic. “I am in the midst of a major crisis with a lot of people,” he said. “Hillary Clinton is going to die today. Do you know what that means for conservative fundraising all over America?”

Have some downtime today while my two candidates (McCain and Romney) drink coffee and recharge their batteries (as it were). Sitting with a conservative opinion journalist, talk turned to Hillary. “I can’t believe the glee with which the press corps treating the Hillary implosion,” he said. “You know, I’ve always thought that you …

I have a new theory about New Hampshire primary politics. The most powerful player is … the fire marshal.

Fellow swamper Michael Scherer, videographer Caitlin Thompson and I went up to Concord yesterday afternoon to catch Mike Huckabee at an event where they were going to name a hamburger (a Huckaburger) in his honor. When we got …

One of the more extraordinary stories of the Obama campaign has been playing out behind the scenes over the past week as the candidate has been working on a daily basis to try to calm things down in his father’s homeland and his grandmother’s home, Kenya, where a contested election has led to riots.

The guy in the purple “I’m a health care voter” shirt stands up to ask a question at a John McCain town hall in Exeter, N.H. “I am embarrassed by our current administration,” he begins, before he is interrupted by applause, “Why can’t this country get Osama bin Laden? I need

“This campaign is playing out exactly as I thought it would.All the pundits, as usual, are wrong. I always [told Hillary] ‘You’ll have a hard time winning the primaries, but if you get nominated, you’ll